>> stay healthy, everybody. on the buzz beater this sunday, the media speculation continues to build as we enter the third week of the missing malaysian plane. and at times, it's getting even more outlandish. >> when we go to church, the supernatural power of god. you deal with all of that. >> people are saying to me, why aren't you talking about the possibility? and i'm just putting it out there, that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding. >> my favorite theory, the 5% theory, is that it's because of some secret passenger with some secret cargo, the aircraft was hijacked and landed some place. >> the ratings are soaring, but how could the networks keep airing unproven theories and

crazy talk? a look at how the coverage veered off course and we'll talk to the "new york times" reporter that keeps breaking stories about the investigation. plus, guess who decides who is cool? the admittedly uncool greg gutfelt says liberals have a monopo monopoly, and he's kind of ticked off about that. >> the media is desperate to be seen as cool. they want to be celebrities, but they're not. for example, if you ever see reporters mixing with actual movie stars, they are worse than groupies. >> a pretty cool conversation with the co-host of "the five." i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. television's coverage of the missing plane seemed out of control in the first week, but in the last few days, it's gone at times into another galaxy as the endless hours of airtime and

the chase for ratings produce more speculation, more conspeakersy mungering and just plain weirdness. >> did lithium batteries play a role in the flight of 370? >> i don't think it's a suicide mission. i think it's a well funded high tech operation and it's sitting somewhere in the jungle. >> i think the chances are that this may have already happened, that this plane wandered into chinese or kurgistan or something and now there's a cover-up? >> my course of action, number one, it was hijacked, number two, but ought to look at pakistan and eastern iran was a course of action that wasn't arbitrary. now it's interesting that we're starting to get other sources to verify it. >> a theory that can explain why and how this plane went down, it is called the zombie plane

scenario. >> in the past, governments have used psychics to help with searches. can they use a psychic here? >> i believe it actually crashed and i see a lot of trees. >> has this become an embarrassment? joining us now, lauren ashburn, rick grenell, and julie mason. i don't know whether to ask you about the zombie plain, her raldo's secret passenger or the psyching on hln. >> the psyching also said she thought there could be a hijacking or a larger organization involved. she left all options oep open on the table. >> and she sees trees. >> she does. let's not forget about the 239 people on that flight. that part of the story is very serious. it should be covered. how far, all the rest of this mess should be knocked off of all of the stations. cable news is the worst offender. cnn's troubled, though, as a result of this the. and it's a pure ratings grab

play. and it's working. it's capitalism at its finest. >> now, i get that there's great public interest in this story and every time there's a satellite image of something that might be a piece of the plane we all go crazy. i'm interested in the story, too, but i'm not interested in the conspiracy theories. >> i'm not sure. i disagree a little pit. i think people are saying i think or i speculate or a lot of these people outside the psyching are coming from this with expert opinion. and, between, it's an opinion. this story is a serious story. it has incredible implications for u.s. national security. if this plane was tape over by terrorists, we are the targets, the united states will be the target if it comes back. i think what we have to do is have a curious media, just have a caveat that this is opinion. and you hit it, the ratings really show. people are intg very interested in this. >> i'm all for having experts on. we'll come back to that, julie.

.it's not just cable news. every news cast in the last week has led with this. but on cable, i also have the impression that it's kind of like a lot of reporters sitting around in a bar, well, i think it could be this. >> and it's not only reporters. when it gets into speculation, a lot of the reporters have been very responsible. not only anchor webs but the journalists covering this story have been pretty good. >> you mentioned the surge in cnn's ratings. but cnn has been, shall we say, casting a wide net here, including the host of the program naked .afraid. let's take a look at that. >> i talked to survivalist stevie snyder. >> and when you have a bunch of people together like that, if somebody steps up in the calm and all the chaos and takes charge and makes that situation better, it is possible. people can be out in those conditions and survive. >> it is possible. anything is possible. >> what happens is cnn is

covering this 26 hours a day, doing good numbers, doing some good reporting and some supernatural reporting. in the past week, fox and msnbc started doing the plane more and more tempted by the fact that that's what the audience wants. >> don't you care about the naked and afraid host of this survival show? >> i don't care. >> what's wrong with you, howie? they're all naked and they're in mud. look, these stories are spectacles and that's what's happening right now. the actual coverage of the news is becoming the news because it is surreal. >> the "new york times" had a story on cnn, success with the story at least in terms of ratings. an anonymous cnn executive saying it's right in our wheel house. but nobody could go on record with that, apparently. but you want to bring on experts, you want to bring on people who work for the fbi, the ntsb, terrorism experts, and, of course, i want to hear from that. and the anchor asks questions. but then, when you do that, the

people who are smart people, i'm not denigrating them, they start saying, well, i think it could be this and i think it could be that. you say that's opinion, but is it always responsible to put opinions that are not backed by facts on the air? >> they're being curious, howie. i disagree with julie in that reporters have completely taken the line of the white house that this is the malaysians are in charge of this investigation. we don't see a curious white house. we don't see a curious press core. the simple fact is, the chinese government railed against the malaysian investigation. the only people that pointed that out were what you call opinion journalists. the journalists haven't pointed that out. there have been a lot of people saying look at the chinese. they're furious with this investigation. >> i've read a couple of stories on how badly the malaysian government has botched this thing. >> yeah. but what i'm saying is that opinion journalists are curious. journalists right now is not that curious. they're sticking to the white house line. >> how can a reporter in washington cover the search for an airplane? that's kind of ridiculous.

they're not taking the white house line. we cover politics. we don't cover plane crashes. >> no, you don't cover politics. you're supposed to cover the government, not politics. >> it's hilarious that someone like you is telling me what i'm supposed to be doing. >> you brought up journalists. journalists are not just supposed to cover politics. >> we're here in washington. journalist res supposed to cover government. >> journalists want to cover this story because every time people turn it on, they're covering the white house line? >> no, reporting the white house line isn't following the white house line. it's -- >> but it's -- >> curious, yeah, everyone is curious about it. look at the ratings for cnn. but curious? challenging the white house's claim that malaysia is in charge of it? >> yeah. because we have the best technology in the world. we should be leading this investigation. >> but the u.s. is involved in it. we should not be waiting for malaysians to ask us to come in. the u.s. was waiting for

malaysians to come in a week late. why aren't reporters at the white house saying where is obama? use our technology to find out where the plane is? >> i don't think you can say that. i don't think you can say get off the golf course. i know by reading it that there are reporters who have challenged that, who have talked about the fbi's role in it and why the fbi hasn't been able to step in. >> president obama has not had a sit down on this issue. he gave six local tv journalists a sit down. he brought the dogs into the room, the prebriefing room to say here are the dogs. do you want to take some pictures on twitter with the dogs before they did a sit down to talk about the minimum wage. a couple of those local reporters tried to ask serious questions. the white house press core was completely silent. i'm not getting a sit down with the president. i'm not getting it. >> they were enraged. like the whole briefing room was

angry, okay, peter baker from the "new york times," carol lee from the "wall street journal" because of people who were challenging in the briefly -- no, they know why the white house brings these local reporters in. the president did get questions about malaysia. the white house press core is mounting a mutiny because the president does not make himself available. >> you're a former member of the white house press core. let me get back to the point that this is a serious story, and too many in the business have turned it into a clown show. there are or were 239 people on board. until that video we saw of those sobbing mowers and we can put this up, who had barged into the malaysian press conference and were escorted out, until that happened, it seems to me there has been remarkably little focus on the people on board .their family members as opposed to everybody delivering their favorite theory about what happened. >> it's true. i did watch and see on cnn several reports about the victims. i think we have to -- >> after what, a week, ten days?

>> it was five days, probably. but it did exist. and i think that we just have to ask when it comes to this, what would the victims or the people on the plane and their families want? would they want all of this speculation? would they want these wild theories from psychics or would they want their lives to be shown for the people that they are? >> if this had ban plane taken off from new york and mostly had american passengers as opposed to chinese passengers b, half the coverage would be about the human soul, the impact on the families and it saddens me that the more sensational aspects of this are getting plenty of airtime and there's been so little focus on this part of the story. >> i agree. it's a tragedy. you look at how many people were lost .how many families affected. it certainly is something that should come. but i think right now -- and this is not to make an excuse for the coverage. but right now, there's a real concern about where this plane is and what could happen to the

united states if this plane was taken over by terrorists. that's a very real concern. now, we don't know what happened. maybe it crashed. but if it didn't,ite a very big deal for the united states government. >> it's a real concern, but it's a question that you say we cannot answer. of course the story is important and of course it should be co r covered, but i can't tell you how many facebook messages and twitter messages i have gotten of people saying i'm just turning it off. people can tell in the first 30 or 40 seconds whether anything new has happened. and does anybody, julie, think this story will continue to be obsessively covered by cable news once the ratings fade? >> no, absolutely not, and once we have a resolution, no. then the story goes away. that's just a news cycle. >> it's a news cycle, but it's -- >> it's a business. >> it's like crack, it's an easy way to get your numbers up, but i don't think that it helps your long-term brand. >> but it's also something we

have seen before, all the way back to america held hostage with ted coppel. that was his show where every night they talked about the iranian hostages for 444 days. and it was a precursor to night line. and listen to this been it was called cheaply, theatrical, shelf yishg and promotional by one of your dleegs in 1979. >> 1979, you had no cable news, you had no twitter, you didn't have all the realtime aspects of this. but still, abc was doing it every night and coppel got a show out of it. before we go, one last banner we had about this, solving mystery could take years. breaking news. there's been a lot of breaking news banners up there when there's not a lot of breaking news. don't forget, send me a tweet about this show @howardkurtz. when we come back, remember the crisis in crimea, how the missing plane coverage caused that story to lose atty

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it was, however briefly, the biggest story in the world, russia sending troops into crimea despite stern warnings from president obama. but when vladimir putin completed his land grab, it was far from the top story. >> it was came on between the

two super powers today after crimea voted to break away from ukraine. president obama and russian president vladimir putin locked in a kind of duel, and economic pain as the weapon. >> this is richard engle in crimea where today they welcomed their new patriots, russia. >> russian president vladimir putin announcing the annexation of crimea as russian soldiers killed one and wounded two others. new video shows an anti-russian group attacking the head of an anti-ukrainian network after they ran mr. putin's speech. >> the media went into full crisis mode it seems to me. but when russia actually completed the act and annexed that part of ukraine, the coverage seemed to lack urgency. it was there, but it almost was flat. what do you think? >> i think it was almost glossed over. they wanted to move on quickly. yesterday we saw karen in "the washington post" front page above the fold piece saying all is fine on this russia-u.s.

problem that both sides pinky swear that it won't bleed into the nuclear issue. we just don't know that. it's been three days since we've had sanctions. you saw people like richard hass, politico saying these sanctions are gripping, three days in, we have a media saying the sanctions are working and we're back to things are normal again. i think this is a very big issue. eastern europeans are very concerned. and we have the oh bam in administration cutting radio for europe funding so we can't even have a conversation in eastern europe. >> it seemed to me at the beginning when everybody was shocked by what vladimir putin did, there was a debate, particularly on cable, is it president obama's fault or not? that seems to have faded a bit with perhaps a rough consensus that with whatever the president did in the past, that he had few options and maybe that took away the element that cable loves, which is making it into a

left-right argument. >> right, making it into a conflict. you the john mccain and others on capitol hill blaming president obama. >> this is such an important international story, but i wonder if it almost became a consensus in the media fairley or unfairly that we knew how it would end. >> well, i think we did because the troops were there. then they came in and then putin said, we're done. we're not going to -- >> there was a shinned up referendum. >> right. and then he said we're not going into ukraine proper. and i think at that point people lost interest. i have to argue with the point, cnn did go wall to wall with this coverage at the beginning beginning. and as a result, they thought small demo bump in the ratings. >> what changed between that period of time and the last couple of weeks was the plane. >> the plane, what else have we been talking about for the past

couple of weeks? nothing but that plane. >> it's almost as if putin had to outlast the western pressure, but to outlast the american news cycle. so now suddenly he's on the tail end of the news cycle, even though right now russian troops are massed at the border of ukraine. he could conceivably go into other parts of ukraine. he says he won't. but we're all doing flight 370. >> it's a serious sorry, but international news is hard to comprehend for a lot of people and it's a complicated story. the implications are longer term. and so i think the unknown of the plane story is an immediate story for a lot of news rooms. and i get that. but we need to concentrate on some of these serious issues. >> so it's an international story, it's complicated. but also there are no u.s. troops involved. so it's almost like there's not that much of a rooting interest. >> like it's everybody else's problem. but at the same time, i want to add how expensive it is to employ reporters overseas.

there just aren't that many reporters in ukraine. >> expensive and dangerous just in the last day we've had some western journalists who have had their cameras, their equipment confiscated. i guess a week or there were reports of some beetle of people trying to cover this story. >> of course. it is dangerous. and i think the problem is people here, as rick said, do not care that much about international stories. they can take it in bursts. but something like the plane, everyone flies, right? you can all relate to something like that. and it is also very much of an issue for everyone. >> and has much more universal appe appeal, no question about that. thank you very much for coming by this sunday. up next, enough with the missing plane speculation. the "new york times" reporter who has broken several scoops on the malaysian mystery is here. [ male aouncer ] we all think about life insurance. but when we start worrying about tomorrow, we miss out on the thin that matter today.

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for all the loose talk on the air waves, some journalists have been doing ground breaking reporting on the missing malaysian plane. joining us now is michael schmidt who has been covering the story for the "new york times." how difficult is it to uncover reliable information about what happened? >> i think the biggest problem is there is not a lot of information to come out. and on top of that, the u.s. is only getting so much of it. we don't have a lot of sources in malaysia that can help us, so we've been forced to rely on folks here in washington. >> on that point, you said one of the stories, the plane was diverted through its flight path through a sophisticated onboard computer that somebody has to have a lot of knowledge, raising the question are they sure? >> well, look, this is the information they're getting. in any story, it's a game of telephone. information is moving from one place to the other. but this is the best information that we have and that they had and we felt confident in it to publish it. but i don't think we're at a point where we're going to take

anonymous stuff coming out of malaysia and use that. i think we want to have some backup though side to know that people are taking it seriously here. >> you reported another story here in the times that the plane altered its course more than once. and then there was the piece about the story about the plane turning sharply to the west, but then it turned out the turn was not so sharply. so even it seems to me that unlike pundits going on the air .speculating, american officials presumably know what they're talking about, but even they are engaged in some informed speculation. is that fair? >> i wouldn't say it's informed speculation. i would say they're getting information a it comes out through this investigation and like any investigation, they uncover new things and the story evolves. there's always a bit of fog of war, what really happened, and especially in this story there's not a lot of information about anything. the interesting thing is, i've never received as much reader e-mail as i've received on this

story. hey, i've phoned two commercial flights, but let me tell you how this went down. but at the same time, there's so much interest, there's not a lot that we know. what do we really know today that we didn't know a week ago? that's sort of the frustrating part about covering it. >> but since u.s. officials don't control this investigation, do you get nervous when you publish one of these things that their information will -- some sources who won't go on the record will turn out not to be fully credible? >> i think we have that fear in any stories that we do that bsh but in these cases, this u.s. has representatives sitting in the room in malaysia where all the information is coming in. they're getting briefeded on it. they're incredibly interested in what happened. they haven't run every lead to the ground to know whatever. and because of that, you know, we feel comfortable, you know, relying on that. >> what's it like to report a piece of solid information and

your stories have held up so far and see it batted around on tv for the next 24, 48 hours by a bunch of pundits speculating about it? >> i guess that's part of the fun of what we do is get to see how other people digest it. it's interesting that small pieces of information can move this story. in the middle of this week, it came out that the fbi was getting involved and that they're going through these hard drives that they found in the flight simulator. and, okay, it's a pretty incremental thing. but that drove the story for that day, just the fbi getting involved. >> right. i noticed a little bit of a change in your appearance as you've been on tv talking about this story. have you vowed not to shave until the plane is found? >> no, look, i'm a newspaper reporter. i am who i am, so i have to stay true to that. >> so you're not trying too just your look for television? >> no, no, not at all. >> do you think you'll stay with this story until we get an answer if we get an answer?

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home in new jersey with no cause of death given. he started in "homeland," and known for his roles in "scent of a woman," and "my cousin vinnie." now back to "media buzz." greg gutfeld was walking around carrying his new into "not cool," and i thought the cool hinge is to ask him about it. we borrowed a studio and did just that. >> welcome. you admitted you are not cool. is this book about getting even with those who are school or who set the standard. >> i am a very bitter person, this has been 40 years building up inside me. actually, it came from a trend i kept seeing in the stories i was

writing. when people do stupid things c, do they do it? it comes down, a desire to be liked. the desire to be liked comes from wanting to be cool, to be accepted, and get beyond the velvet reason starting in grade school through college and you are --. >> you were scarred by grade school, clearly. >> i was. >> you also say you wish it were not the case but conservatives are not cool. >> because conservatives are the people that get things done and getting things done is boring. being cool is subverting tradition. subverting the norm. the problem with being cool they don't have anything to replace it with and necessity laugh at businessman or the military or they laugh at glitches but their alternative is never anything as good. >> you blamed it on the blazers. >> i do, i say that

conservatives have to litten up and develop a sense of humor about themselves. there is a moralism in the left and right, almost equal, the political correctness of the left that tells you how to behave and on the right a moralism that could be based in religious tradition about how you live your life. >> when you spray the targets, they also, the people you target, as cool, they are all liberal. >> absolutely. >> wants to get that on the table. >> if you look at, for example, present-day politics, you have a liberal president but he is hip and cool and you seem to see this infiltrating of hipster thinking, that we look inward and america is at fault for everything which allows to us retreat from the world stage which is why you seeing more

problems an the world because people see that we are naval gazing rather than building our navy. how do you like that? >> you say most young people voted for president obama because they saw him as "cool." doesn't that neutralize what he stood for. >> yes. it does. i agree. here is how i look at the election and the election after that. senator john mccain was a war hero who spent many years in prison camp and he became a strong leader for america and is a true patriot. he should have been president. senator obama was inexperienced, but he was remain whatting, he was young, he was going to be the first black president. if you were going to ask someone, who what make you cooler, voting for this older white haired gentleman or this young brash articulate black man, that is the cooler choice. not to say that president obama is not a capable person but in

that election john mccain was the more experienceed one and what decision has led to the cons now. i have a feeling vladimir putin would be dealing with america under john mccain far differently than dealing with president obama. >> back to the book. you are getting off politics. "cool liberals," they vote pat themselves on the back making decisions cheered on by a media and pop culture that already agrees. >> exactly. the media is desperate to be seen as cool. they are in the -- they want to be celebrities but they are not. if you ever see a reporter mixing with actual movie stars, they are worse than groupies. they run to get their picture taken. that is sad. i have never seen you do that, howie. >> movie stars think the journalists are cool and they want their pictures taken so this is a mutual envy.

>> i sense this is you shaking your 50 at liberal culture which you think is all leaning sharply left. >> absolutely. i will agree with you on that. people become liberal because they want to be cool. that's how it happened. why does somebody get involved in a crusade or cause on campus if there is no productive value to it? because it is cool. >> when ronald reagan was president he was seen in many quarters as cool and a lot of young people became conservative. >> i don't think ronald reagan was ever seen as "cool." >> he was a movie star. >> he, worked with a monkey. you can't be cool and work with a amongcy. >> the liberal culture, say, for the sake of argument you are right, you cannot change it. you cannot even win over bob beckel. >> true. he is a charming man. you can beat them with facts and

you have to counter their cool ethos. you cannot let them make you feel bad about being cool. you reject "cool" with "good." cool negateed good versus evil. i said hannity, i say -- said, the villans are more attractive if you look at "break ing bad." >> charming rogues. >> anything old is uncool and you blame the media? >> i blame you, howie. we have a fascination with the young and the young spend a lot of money. it is old people who are cool because they are filled with information that we don't have.

they are locked -- unlocked safe of information. trying to coach a nine-year-old woman she will tell you what it was like at world war ii. isn't that cool? >> isn't television part of the blame? young attractive people face the demographics up to 54 because the advertisers like that? >> this is what is behind president obama beating john mccain. >> and romney, same thing. >> despite that, you are on tv quite a lot. >> i am hideous looking but i imagine to clawed my way up to wherever i am, 3:00 in the morning. >> thanks greg gutfeld for joining us. >> your tweets on the missing plane coverage have been pouring in. >> frank says the flight's disappearance says it is time for the news story to be on page two or three. mark, they will fine the plane

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we're back with our new segment, video verdict. this moment with cnn's don lemon was out of this world. >> whether it's hijacking or pilot error, but what if it was

something we fully don't understand. a lot of people have been asking about black holes, and all of these conspiracy theory. noah says, you can think of bermuda triangle. >> and just like the movie "lost." and representing "the twilight zone" which is a similar plot. is it preposterous, do you think, mary? >> you've got to give it to mary when she answered. she said, well, no, it is proceed pose truss, but this is a wonderful question. wonderful question, are you kidding? this is the reason why the gallup polls show that journalists, when you give them a rating of very high, 2% of people polled say they give journalists a rating of very high when it comes to truth. >> don lemon is a smart guy, i don't know why he's saying these things on the air. i think our collective credibility is disappearing into a black hole, but at least he rephrased its as a question.

what is your score? >> i'm giving it a 4. >> that's generous. i'm giving it a 2. i flirted with 0. >> it was a question of the what-if category. we have another one. the president did more puffball interviews this week to promote obamacare. he talked basketball brackets, and ellen degeneres asked him joke questions, one about his tv viewing habits. >> do you watch "house of cards?" do you watch "scandal"? >> i have to tell you, life in washington is a little more boring than displayed on the screen. >> i hope so. while i have you, i think we should talk about obamacare, and that rhyme. >> well, you know we've got about two weeks left to march 31st for people to sign up. >> it's doing very very well. you have about 5 million people who have signed up so far. >> well, ellen was funnier with

the president than zach galifianakis. >> between two ferns? i think anything would be funnier than that. >> but she totally embraced it,. >> it's true. it is her show, though, and she gets to say what she wants. as you said, at least she was funny the at times, but it was all obamacare is great. it's an entertainment show, not a news show, i get that, but it was over the top. >> and it was like go sign up for obamacare right now. again, it would have been better in my book if she had at least asked him to defend something how bad it was botched in the beginning. your score? >> a 6, because it was at least a bit funny. >> i give it a 4. i'm grading generously. still to come, your top tweets. how about this l.a. earthquake? jimmy kimmel gets busted.

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on the front page of "animal planet" they had "do lobsters feel pain." >> people are getting fed up and they are check out "animal planet." >> that is the beauty of a clicker. >> in los angeles we saw that ktla was broadcasting live. >> coming up, more problems -- earthquake. earthquake. earthquake. >> we are having an earthquake! >> yep! it appears to have stopped. look at the cameras. >> we go to the united states geological survey. >> that prompted jimmy kimmel to send out the news team where they ask ordinary folk about a fake story and this had a taste to get them to react. >> did you hear that they are

predicting a cataclysmic america to hit at 8:30. how do you prepare? >> we were not aware. >> a nonevent? >> we don't accept that tomorrow is a huge earthquake. we to we that is a spoof news item. >> winner! >> he is the first person. he difficulty. the first person who didn't lie just to be on tv. >> they think, well, it must have been a story and i didn't hear. >> people actually said, i lie because i want to get on tv. >> they are so desperate. >> this guy didn't buy the story, knew it was b.s. and he get on, anyway. >> that is it for "media buzz." check out our facebook page and give us a "like" we have a lot of conversations there.

back next sunday morning with the latest buzz at 11 a.m. eastern and 5:00 p.m. eastern. >> i am chris wallace. in the certain for malaysia airlines flight 370 a french airlines finds debris. the investigation now focuses on objects spotted by satellite in the indian ocean. >> most inaccessible spot on the face of the earth. if there is anything down there, we will find it. >> f.b.i. tries to retrieve files deleted from the pilot's flight simluator and family continue the agonizing debate. >> we will talk with the chair of of the house